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On the recordJuly 18, 2017
If an ER doctor was able to save 99 percent of the critical patients that came through the door of that ER, and put 90 percent of them on a clear path to recovery, as the ESA has done with imperiled species, that doctor would receive universal praise.
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Jared Huffman
Democratic · California

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Huffman compares the ESA's success to a doctor's performance in an ER.

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